Professional wedding photographer, Flash Havoc reader, and all round great guy, Dave Cheung has jumped right into the deep end – moving to a full kit of the new Nikon Phottix Mitro+ Flashes, Odin transmitters, and Atlas II receivers, for his nicely integrated new lighting kit.

Phottix have the first built-in radio TTL flash system available now for Nikon, with the Mitros+. And the Phottix Odin system have already proven themselves to be one of the few TTL radio systems really up to the quality, reliability, and stability, wedding photographers require.

So many Nikon wedding photographers in particular, are now in the same position as Dave, trying to weigh up whether the new Phottix radio flash system is going to suit them completely, before making a fairly substantial investment in a full system.

Dave teams up with his wife covering weddings in a multi shooter combination, actually sharing the same lights. So this is about as demanding as it gets for a radio flash system.

And Dave has kindly shared his experience, with a great review and a number of videos explaining the Mitros+ system on his blog – Not So Ancient Chinese Secrets.

If you’re a Nikon shooter looking to move into the Mitros+ system, Dave will pretty soon know all the ins and outs, and he’s also very helpful. So feel free to drop him a question on the blog.

Glad to see more in depth reviews of the Mitros+ system. I own it and it works flawlessly and very intuitive system. It would be nice if Dave included some of the Odin TCU in his review as well, seems he will mostly use a Local flash as the controller. Good stuff!!!

Just sold off my Pocketwizard Flex, mini and the ac-3. Have not had a misfire. I did a comparison of the Nikon SB-910 and the Phottix Mitros+ flashes for Nikon. I could not detect any differences at all from the shots when alternating between the two using the Nikon D4. TTL exposure was the same, so was colour (without the diffuser).

The Early version (or firmware) Mitros and Mitros+ were very erratic and unpredictable with the overheat protection, which slowed recycle times pretty quickly if you pushed the flash hard. It just depended how hard you need to use the flash though, as many people had not experienced this even when they were quite rough at the beginning.

The Canon version at least is greatly improved now, the slow down is pretty consistent. Though compared to the Canon 600EX-RT I found they can not match the same number of consecutive shots, please see my comments here.

So if you’re running into issues with the Canon flashes at all, the Mitros+ is not going to be an advantage there. If you don’t need to the push the flash as hard though, they are nice flashes now. And the radio master (Odin) interface is far better and quicker than the Canon flash in my opinion. The ETTL exposures are all fine and consistent now as far as I am aware. Thanks.